7 Bible Verses about Christ's Joy
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These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and your joy might be completed.
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I will acknowledge to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and hast revealed them to babes: yes Father, for so was it benevolence before thee.
And having found, he puts upon his shoulders, rejoicing. And having come into the house, he calls together friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me: for I have found my lost sheep. I say to you, that so shall joy be in heaven over one sinful repenting, more than over ninety-nine just, which have no need of repentance.
And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that I might have my joy completed in them.
Looking in the distance to Jesus the author and completer of the faith; who for the joy laid before him endured the cross, having despised the shame, and sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.
And he having sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone; for I do always things pleasing to him.
Truly, truly, I say to you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be grieved, but your grief shall be into joy. A woman when she should bring forth, has grief, because her hour has come: and when the child should be born, she no more remembers the anguish, for the joy that a man was born into the world. And where truly ye now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes away from you.
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Joy » Christ's joy » Israel lost the joy of divine favour
And turned your festivals into mourning, and all your songs to lamentation; and I brought up sackcloth upon all loins, and upon every head, baldness; and I set it as the mourning of an only one, and its last part as a day of bitterness.
And I caused all her rejoicing to cease, her festival and her new moon, and her Sabbath and all her appointment
And the light of the lamp no more should shine in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, should no more be heard in thee: for thy wholesale merchants were leaders of the earth: for with thy charms were all nations led astray.
And I caused the noise of thy songs to cease and the voice of thy harps shall no more be heard.
An outcry for wine in the streets; all joy grew dark, the exulting of the earth was carried into exile.
Joy » Christ's joy » Sustained him at the cross
Looking in the distance to Jesus the author and completer of the faith; who for the joy laid before him endured the cross, having despised the shame, and sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.
Joy » Christ's joy » In the divine method of revelation
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I will acknowledge to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and hast revealed them to babes: yes Father, for so was it benevolence before thee.
Joy » Christ's joy » Bestowed through his words
And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that I might have my joy completed in them.
Joy » Christ's joy » Abides in believers
These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and your joy might be completed.
Joy » Christ's joy » In finding the lost sheep
And having found, he puts upon his shoulders, rejoicing.
